Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.