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

…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.