The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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.
I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else it must be in my own way.
