"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"

"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 am going to Bath with the Gardiners. I mean to be as happy as possible, and not to think of any thing till I get there."

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

"My style is too light and unpretending to suit the pen of a great author."