I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.