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Time did not compose her.

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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−inform...more

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Time will explain.

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Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

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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...more

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I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other creature in the world.