“The sooner every party breaks up, the better.”

“On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.”

“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”

“One can never have too large a party.”

“She will be more hurt by it, for Robert always was her favourite. —She will be more hurt by it, and on the same principle will forgive him much sooner.”