My being charming is not quite enough to induce me to marry.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
We all know the difference between the pronouns he or she and thou, the plainest spoken amongst us; we all feel the influence of a something beyond common civility in our personal intercourse with each other—a something more early implanted. We cannot give any body the disagreeable hints that we may have been very full of the hour before. We feel things differently.
It is only by seeing women in their own homes, among their own set, just as they always are, that you can form any just judgment. Short of that, it is all guess and luck—and will generally be ill-luck. How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!