If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.