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

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

I am all astonishment.