Angry people are not always wise.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant, but she will swallow anything.

If a woman doubts to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought refuse him. If she can hesitate as to "Yes," she ought to say "No," directly.

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

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

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

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

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

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