One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

I should not mind anything at all.

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.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.