Frances Burney

… men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

— Frances Burney

The artlessness of unadorned truth, however sure in theory of extorting admiration, rarely in practice fails inflicting pain and mortification.

— Frances Burney

… imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

— Frances Burney