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

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.