It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.