You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

I soon forgot storm in music.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.