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?

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.