If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.