"I am not at all disposed to think myself a very elegant writer."

"I have been so much engaged on other things that I have not been able to do any thing to my novel for a long time."

"There was a monstrous deal of stupid quizzing and common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit."

"I am tired of everybody, and everything."

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