"my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be..."
"Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."
"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."
"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."
"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."
"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."