But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.