I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

I love you. Most ardently.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.