"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
"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."
"Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain."
"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."