Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

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

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

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.

This is an evening of wonders, indeed!