“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”

“You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.”

“Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some”

“He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy, made her affection appear of greater consequence, because it was witheld, and determined him to have the glory, as well as the felicity of forcing her to love him.”

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

“Is not poetry the food of love?”

“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”