[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.