You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

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

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.