Arguments are too much like disputes.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.