Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.