It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.