Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.