"I have just finished the first volume of 'Mansfield Park,' and am very much pleased with it. I think it is a very clever book."

"I have been listening to some very dull music, and have just been relieved by the entrance of a fat lady."

"My dearest, most kind, most excellent sister, I wish you would not be so good to me."

"Writing is my delight; when real life wearies me, I retreat into my pages."

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