"I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive."

"I consider a country life as a very happy one; and I think it is the most natural life for a woman."

"I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on until I am."

"I have been so much entertained with this letter, that I have read it over and over again."

"I often wonder how you can have the patience to write so much."