Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.