I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!