A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.