“I can always live by my pen.”

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”

“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.”

“If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.”

“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.”

“I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.”

“never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's...”