her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.