A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

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

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.