One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

The less said the better.

His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.