If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.