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

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.