She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.
Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
One cannot have too large a party.
One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
