None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time