One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

A Woman never looks better than on horseback

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.