Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

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

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.