Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
My heart is, and always will be, yours.
How much I love every thing that is decided and open!
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.
The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.
How can I dispose of myself with it?
I have read your book, and I disapprove.
Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind.
You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.
Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.
We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.
It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.