 Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. |
| A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. |
| I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. |
| Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. |
| It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. |
| If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. |
| An artist cannot do anything slovenly. |
| Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. |
| If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. |
| The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. |
| To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. |
| Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. |
| Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. |
| There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. |
| The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. |
| Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. |
| How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! |
| I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. |
| One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. |
| They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. |
