"My dearest, most kind, most excellent sister, I wish you would not be so good to me."

"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

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

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

"I have been so much engaged on other things that I have not been able to do any thing to my novel for a long time."