A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.