It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.