Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.