Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

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)

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.