I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.