Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

I should not mind anything at all.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.