One can never have too large a party.

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?