The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

I must have my share in the conversation.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Sense will always have attractions for me.