There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

She was stronger alone.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.