We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

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

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness that I ever heard of.

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

We cannot prove to the contrary, to be sure; but I wish you a better fate, Miss Price, than to be the wife of a man whose amiableness depends upon his own sermons; for though he may preach himself into a good-humour every Sunday, it will be bad enough to have him quarrelling about green geese from Monday morning till Saturday night.

Mansfield Park