Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.