“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.”

“It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.”

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

“There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.”

“Sense will always have attractions for me.”

“To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”