I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

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

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.