my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.