“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.”

“Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.”

“Imagination took the reins and Reason slow-paced though surefooted was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.”

“There was an exceeding good concert, but too much talking to hear it well. Indeed I am quite astonished to find how little music is attended to in silence; for, though every body seems to admire, hardly any body listens.”

“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.”

“You could not see and know her, and remain unmoved by those sensations of affection which belong to so near and tender a relationship.”