We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.