It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.