She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.