“Beware of the insipid vanities and idle dissipations of the metropolis of England; Beware of the unmeaning luxuries of Bath and of the stinking fish of Southampton.""Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall never be exposed to? What probability is there of my ever tasting the dissipations of London, the luxuries of Bath, or the stinking fish of Southamption?...”

“Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall never be exposed to?”

“Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted."-- Jane Austen's Letters August 1796”

“Beware how you give your heart.”

“I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

“Of music! Then pray speak aloud. It is of all subjects my delight. I must have my share in the conversation if you are speaking of music. There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”