All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

We do not suffer by accident.

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

The less said the better.

Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!