Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.