Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them..

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repe….

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can..

I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we….

I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than t….

He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him t….

I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of..

You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how t….

If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it….

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivate….

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise..

But, God knows best, I concluded..

I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of….

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments.

A girl's affections should never be won unsought..

I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slo….

And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I asked myself. And my h….

No one can be happy in eternal solitude..

There is perfect love in heaven!.

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark part….