Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream. - Jane Austen

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.