There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart . . .

Everything united in her; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world and a warm heart

You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.