A Woman never looks better than on horseback

But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

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

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.