There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

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

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.