Without music, life would be a blank to me.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.