I have read your book, and I disapprove..

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight..

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve..

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies..

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt..

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before..

A Woman never looks better than on horseback.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible..

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagi….

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginn….

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim..

Is not poetry the food of love?.

There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have ….

We do not suffer by accident..

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is….

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable….

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase th….

Success supposes endeavour..

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit..