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

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.