To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!
Fanny BurneyWealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.
Fanny Burney