Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.