Too many cooks spoil the broth

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

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

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.