A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.