"There are such beings in the world, of so much refinement as to be always miserable."

"I am tired of great men and great women, who are always good, and always doing good, and always saying good things."

"I am in a humour to abuse everybody and everything."

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."