Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.