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That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.

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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?

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I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether...more

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and w...more

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Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

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With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must ...more

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How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

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I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all.

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Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

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What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.