I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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.
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.