How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

An annuity is a very serious business.