There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.