Evil to some is always good to others

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

About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

We are all fools in love.