One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.
The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!
I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.
A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
I trust that absolutes have gradations.
Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world.
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?