How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

I will only add, God bless you.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

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.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.