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

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.