Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.