The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
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 nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.