A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.