Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on ….

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human na….

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects..

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure..

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much….

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not..

An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome..

We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, q….

What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, y….

Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other..

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's..

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement..

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth..

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a ….

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchan….

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health..

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before..

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved..

My good opinion once lost is lost forever..

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning..