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.

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

There is no running away from a great grief.

Fashion is a capricious deity.

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.