it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.