A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

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.

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.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.