For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.