"[F]or me 'tis a better-natured and a less fault to believe too much than to distrust where there is no cause."

"The heat of the day is spent in reading or working, and about six or seven o’clock, I walk out into a common that lie…"

"All letters, methinks, should be as free and easy as one’s discourse, not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard …"

"I shall never be persuaded that marriage has a charm to raise love out of nothing, much less out of dislike."

"I am not apt to suspect without just cause, but in earnest if I once find anybody faulty towards me, they lose me for…"

"'[T]is a sad thing when all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable."

"I had rather agree to what you say than tell you that Dr Taylor (whose devote you must know I am) says there is a gre…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."