If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

One can never have too large a party.

At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

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

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.