Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

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.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.