All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.