We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Is not poetry the food of love?

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

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world