"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."

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well."

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

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

"I have a right to be in a bad humour sometimes."