To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Time, time will heal the wound.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.