Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.