It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.