My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
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.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
