“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.