Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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.
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.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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.
You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.
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