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.

While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

How little has situation to do with happiness.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.