Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.