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

"My dearest Cassandra, I have just received your letter, and am sorry to find that you have so little to say for yourself."

"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

"My dearest, most kind, most excellent sister, I wish you would not be so good to me."

"I am not fond of anything that is not perfectly good; and therefore I do not like my own writing, for I think it is not perfectly good."