He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.