If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!