I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.
Know your own happiness.
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
To love is to burn, to be on fire.
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.