Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all."

"She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper."

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high repect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least."