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

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

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.