There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

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

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.