I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.