It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.