My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.