There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.