I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
I can always live by my pen.
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
one day in the country is exactly like another.
Angry people are not always wise.
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
How much I love every thing that is decided and open!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.
Without music, life would be a blank to me.
The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
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