All letters, methinks, should be as free and easy as one’s discourse, not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm. - Dorothy Osborne

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

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

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 great advantage to be gained in resigning up one’s will to the command of another, because the same action which in itself is wholly indifferent if done upon our own choice, becomes an act of duty and religion if done in obedience to the command of any person whom nature, the laws, or our selves have given a power over us.