Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

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

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

Faultless in spite of all her faults.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.