There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

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.

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

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

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

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.