We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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!