I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.