“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

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

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

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

I can always live by my pen.

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

It’s such a happiness when good people get together.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.

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

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.