Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

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.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.