The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more.
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.
It’s such a happiness when good people get together.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Let us have the luxury of silence.
We do not suffer by accident.
He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman’s daughter. So far we are equal.