But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

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.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.