What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.