Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

She is loveliness itself.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

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