I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

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

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!

Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

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.