I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.