One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

I am all astonishment.