My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

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

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.