Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

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

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.