Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.