"I am not a good hand at describing a place. I am all for character and conversation."

"I am very much pleased with my own performance, and I think I have done very well."

"I have been so much used to write, that I cannot help it."

"I have been thinking a good deal about you, and wishing you were here, that we might talk over the wedding."

"I give you joy of our new nephew, and hope if he ever comes to be hanged it will not be till we are too old to care about it."