This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.