"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall."
"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."