I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.