"Respect for right conduct is felt by every body." — Jane Austen

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.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.