Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.