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

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

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

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.