I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.