I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.