"Laugh at me as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."

"I consider a country life as a very happy one; and I think it is the most natural life for a woman."

"To be disgraced in the eyes of the world, to be ashamed of one's self! That is the misery, that is the horror!"

"I have been so much amused with this place, that I have hardly known how to leave it."

"I am quite determined to be a disagreeable old maid."