Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.