A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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.

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.