We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.