What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

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

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

I can always live by my pen.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.