I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

Know your own happiness.

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

Is not poetry the food of love?