To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
I love you. Most ardently.
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.