If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.