My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

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

to hope was to expect

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.