Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.