It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.