For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt