I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.