It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.