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

"There is nothing one cannot say in a letter, except what one really wishes to say."

"I am tired of great men and great women, who are always good, and always doing good, and always saying good things."

"I am very fond of tea and books."

"Oh! do not attack me with your fine words. I will not be talked out of my senses."