Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

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.