I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

We neither of us perform to strangers.

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.