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

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.