The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.