How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Good opinion once lost is lost for ever.
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 farther expense to anybody.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say), I shall have no check to my genius from beginning to end.
