I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.