Too many cooks spoil the broth

We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

I have read your book, and I disapprove.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.