It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

“I abhor every common-place phrase by which wit is intended”

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition …”

“Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have ot…”

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”