It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

one day in the country is exactly like another.

Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.