Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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.

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.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

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.

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.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.