Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.
When money is once parted with, it can never return.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.