Jacob was not in such a hurry when he wished for Rachel.” “That was all very well for an old patriarch who had seven or eight hundred years to live.”… - Anthony Trollope

If I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart. Even if I were young and good-looking, I doubt whether I could please myself. As it is I am likely to be taken bodily to heaven, as to become any man's wife.

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!