A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.