Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.