We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.