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

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.

[A] real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it.

I am not apt to suspect without just cause, but in earnest if I once find anybody faulty towards me, they lose me for ever; I have forsworn being twice deceived by the same person.