“Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal.”

“…she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook…”

“One cannot creep upon a journey; one cannot help getting on faster than one has planned: and the pleasure of coming in upon one's friends before the look-out begins is worth a great deal more than any little exertion it needs.”

“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.”

“Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.""I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.”

“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”

“A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.”