"A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable, old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her."

"Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do."

"Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?"

"One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s."