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

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.