One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.