A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.