The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance.

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ”

“If I understand you rightly, you had formed a surmise of such horror as I have …”

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a …”

“To such perseverance in willful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, a…”