"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."
"Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain."
"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."