If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.