When money is once parted with, it can never return.

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.