A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think I could place them in such a view. You will allow that in both man has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal; that in both it is an engagement between man and woman, formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution; that it is their duty each to endeavor to give the other no cause for wishing that he or she had bestowed themselves elsewhere, and their best interest to keep their own imaginations from wandering towards the perfections of their neighbors, or fancying that they should have been better off with any one else.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing