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

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.