I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.
We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
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.
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling