A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

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.

Time did not compose her.

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind