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

I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman...with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers...

Fashion is a capricious deity.

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

I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.