You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.