“Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.”

“And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.”

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”

“When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.”

“My style of writing is very different from yours.”

“Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.”