Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

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.

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.