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

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

We neither of us perform to strangers.

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

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

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.