Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

We neither of us perform to strangers.