Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

I have read your book, and I disapprove.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

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.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

You have delighted us long enough.