it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

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

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.