To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.
I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10)
You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.
She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment, which the progress of time and variation of circumstances occasion in this world of changes.
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply..
Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which...
Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good behaviour which it ought to produce, and her consciousness of misery was therefore increased by the i...
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.
I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?
Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.
…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.
