I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.