A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

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