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.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

Everything nourishes what is strong already