The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

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

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.