Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.