I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.