Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

There are secrets in all families.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.