A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. Those who do not complain are never pitied. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.