But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

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?

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

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

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

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.