Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
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.
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
I trust that absolutes have gradations.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Time will explain.
To love is to burn, to be on fire.
I am excessively diverted.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
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.
people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
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