The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

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?