Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

Confidence is its own security.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

My heart is its own grave!

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.