"Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would alw…"

"I have no patience with people who take themselves seriously. It is a sign of a small mind."

"I am very much pleased with my own performance, and I think I have done very well."

"I am not a good hand at describing a place. I am all for character and conversation."

"She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its …"