It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen. English novelist (1775–1817)
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?