"Women in black gowns, and drab-coloured shawls hung upon their shoulders as if they were pegs in a passage — men in c…"

"No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable."

"[From Mr Morland]: You all universally like the qualities in which you yourselves are deficient : the more you indulg…"

"We build our castles on the golden sand ; — the material is too rich to be durable."

"— it makes good the observation that a bystander sees more of the game than those who are playing ; —"

"But pleasures are always most delightful when we look back upon, or forward to them : …"

"The first great principle of our religious, moral, civil, and literary institutions, is a dinner."

"[From Lord Mandeville]: What will Lady Lauriston do without a daughter to marry ? She really must advertise for one."

"What betraying things blushes are ! Like sealing wax in the juvenile riddle, a blush "burns to keep a secret.""

"… : people cannot be married without a clergyman — the milliner and the jeweller are equally indispensable."