Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

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

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Everything nourishes what is strong already

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.