I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Almost anything is possible with time

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

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.