A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

We neither of us perform to strangers.

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.