From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

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

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

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

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.