When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.