I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

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

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.