Sense will always have attractions for me.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.