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