In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

I walk: I prefer walking.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!