Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

Let us have the luxury of silence.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.