"I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women."

"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."

"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."