To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

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