Letter 1 - To Henry Colden
_ Letter I - To Henry Colden
To Henry Colden
Philadelphia, Monday Evening, October 3.
I am very far from being a wise girl. So conscience whispers me, and, though vanity is eager to refute the charge, I must acknowledge that she is seldom successful. Conscience tells me it is folly, it is guilt, to wrap up my existence in one frail mortal； to employ all my thoughts, to lavish all my affections, upon one object； to dote upon a human being, who, as such, must be the heir of many frailties, and whom I know to be not without his faults； to enjoy no peace but in his presence, to be grateful for his permission to sacrifice fortune, ease, life itself, for his sake.
From the humiliation produced by these charges, vanity endeavours to relieve me by insinuating that all happiness springs from affection； that nature ordains no tie so strong as that between the sexes； that to love without bounds is to confer bliss not only on ourselves but on another

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