Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

I must have my share in the conversation.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

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.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.