Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
But to appear happy when I am so miserable – Oh! who can require it?
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship.
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; – it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
I can always live by my pen.
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.
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
One word from you shall silence me forever.
I was quiet but I was not blind.
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.