Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

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?