There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. - Jane Austen

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.