“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”
“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
“From politics it was an easy step to silence.”
“Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
“We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.”
“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”
“There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.”
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
“I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”
“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”
“One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.”
“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
“With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.”
“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.”
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.”
“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
“There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.”
“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.”
“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.”