I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.