As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

I do not cough for my own amusement.

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!