there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

What strange creatures brothers are!