"Compliments are the most dangerous things in the world."

"Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

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

"It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire."