I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.