I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

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

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.

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

Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.