With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.