Angry people are not always wise.

He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.