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

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.