There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

I do not cough for my own amusement.

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.