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

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excelle...”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”

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

“no hay que desesperar de lograr aquello que deseamos, pues la asiduidad, si es constante, consigue el fin que se propone...”

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

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”