I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
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 opinion once lost is lost for ever.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
Every savage can dance.
Do not give way to useless alarm, though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
Do clear them too, or we shall be obliged to think ill of somebody.
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
