And I write up to the conclusion of this day, that they may see how happy you have made me.

Has just left me, with the kindest, tenderest expressions, and gentlest behavior that ever blest a happy maiden.

Every Hour he makes me happier, by his sweet condescension.

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

Tired of myself longing for what I have not.

What poor wretches are we, Harriet, men as well as women! We pray for long life; and what is the issue of our prayers, but leave to outlive our teeth and our friends, to stand in the way of our elbowing relations, and to change our swan-skins for skins of buff; which nevertheless will keep out neither cold nor infirmity?

Handsome husbands often make a wife’s heart ache.

From her instructions, I had an early notion, that it was much more noble to forgive an injury than to resent it: and to give a life than to take it.

They will very probably, by remembring past mistakes, avoid many inconveniencies into which forgetfulness will run you lively ones.