I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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