"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
"We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does."
"Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."