her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.
Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.
I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.