Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.