How can you contrive to write so even?

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.