We do not suffer by accident.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.