There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding.

We do not look in our great cities for our best moralit

All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run, will certainly have the laugh on her side.

I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defense of some little peculiar vexation.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed

She was disturbed by no fear for her felicity, not humbled by any remembrance of her misconduct.