Success supposes endeavour.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.