Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony. - Jane Austen

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Devereux Forester's being ruined by his vanity is extremely good, but I wish you would not let him plunge into a "vortex of dissipation." I do not object to the thing, but I cannot bear the expression; it is such thorough novel slang, and so old that I daresay Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.

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