"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done."
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
"Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies."
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"
"From politics, it was an easy step to silence."
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."
"I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."
"It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides."
"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."
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