In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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

Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.