What strange creatures brothers are!

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.