It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.