All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.