“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”

“Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”

“General uncivility is the very essence of love.”

“Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.”

“A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.”

“General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.”

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