Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

You have delighted us long enough.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.