“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures.”

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

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

There is no great genius without a touch of madness.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.