No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?