Friendship is the bread of the heart.

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

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

The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.

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

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.