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Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year ...

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

They know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing ...

I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.

There is no running away from a great grief.

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

Fashion is a capricious deity ...

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason ...

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age ...