[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

I will only add, God bless you.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.