Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.