If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.