I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

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.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.