The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. |
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. |
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. |
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. |
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment. |
But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. |
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply... |
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. |
Angry people are not always wise. |
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. |