There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.'

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.