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.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.