Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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