"I do not want to be a man. I wish to be a woman, and to be as agreeable as a woman can be."

"I have no patience with people who take themselves seriously. It is a sign of a small mind."

"I give you joy of our new nephew, and hope if he ever comes to be hanged it will not be till we are too old to care about it."

"I often wonder how you can have the patience to write so much."

"She did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."