I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.

I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.