Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Time, time will heal the wound.

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.