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

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"It's such a happiness when good people get together."

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

"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."

"The distance is nothing when one has a motive."