Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

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

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

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

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

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

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

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

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.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

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

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