She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

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.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.