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

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.