“If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.”

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

“I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certain silly things cease to be silly if done by sensible people in an imprudent way.”

“Certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

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

“The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.-Sense and Sensibility”

“A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.”