The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

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.

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.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.