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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

A woman especially, if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?

...from politics, it was an easy step to silence.

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid