It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

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

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.