But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

To understand, thoroughly understand her own heart, was the first endeavour.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart