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

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.