Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.