I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
I can always live by my pen.
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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.
Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
Angry people are not always wise.
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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.
Each found her greatest safety in silence.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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.
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
She is loveliness itself.
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
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