"I have just been reading a novel which I think is very pretty, but which I do not like at all."

"I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on until I am."

"I have been so much entertained with this letter, that I have read it over and over again."

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

"I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my own way."