"I am going to Bath with the Gardiners. I mean to be as happy as possible, and not to think of any thing till I get there."

"I often wonder how you can have the patience to write so much."

"I do not think I ever was in a more disgraceful state. I am quite ashamed of myself."

"I have just been informed that I am to be an aunt."

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