it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.
Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
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.