“I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”

“No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”

“who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was.”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”

“There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer.”

“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”

“When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.”