"Writing is my delight; when real life wearies me, I retreat into my pages."

"I have not patience with the men, they are such fools!"

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

"To be sure, you are sensible, and I know nobody who does not think you a sensible woman; but I do not think you are a sensible woman to be always in the right."

"I am not fond of anything that is not perfectly good; and therefore I do not like my own writing, for I think it is not perfectly good."