every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.
All perfection is melancholy.
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.