All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

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.

Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.