A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.