- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else. »
- Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. »
- Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. »
- In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. »
- At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them. »
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. »
- "Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. »
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. »
- 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. »
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. »
- A woman should never be trusted with money. »
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