Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor….

Farewell to Thee! But not farewell To all my fondest thoughts of Thee; Within my heart they still shall dwell And they shall cheer and comfort me..

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be, written for both men and wo….

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will..

Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear?.

He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, ….

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it..

No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same e….

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at ….

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!.

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the fin….

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-resp….

Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but y….

I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of….

Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never b….

You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle, but I should never be tempted ….

To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the n….

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike..

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted..

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false.

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship.