English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
The fearless make their own way.
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.
We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.