One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.