A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

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

My heart is, and always will be, yours.