You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

Success supposes endeavour.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.