Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.