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.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.