I do not want people to be …
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of…
To sit in the shade on a …
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the…
Where so many hours have been spent …
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is…
One half of the world cannot understand …
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
~ Jane Austen…
Silly things do cease to be silly …
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in…
A large income is the best recipe …
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
~ Jane…
Everybody likes to go their own way–to …
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.…
I cannot think well of a man …
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there…
I pay very little regard…to what any …
I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of marriage.…
If any one faculty of our nature …
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest,…
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, …
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not…
Nothing amuses me more than the easy …
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of…