Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.