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

"I have been at great pains to avoid the sort of female who is always in love with a man, and always talking of him, and always wishing to marry him."

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"

"I have just returned from a visit to some friends, where I was very well entertained, and had a good deal of dancing."

"I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my own way."