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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.