A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world! - Frances Burney

Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!

To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic; but to dispense them worthily must, surely, be more beneficial to mankind.