With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.