"What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own."

"What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own."

"I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence."

"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love."

"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love"

"You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope."

"The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!"

"You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough."

"This one half hour had given to each the same precious certainty of being beloved."

"If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement."