I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

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

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

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

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

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...

The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.