If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation