Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Arguments are too much like disputes.