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

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

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

"With women, the heart argues, not the mind."

"It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best."

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"