to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

But authors before they write should read.

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.