-"I would always rather be happy than dignified."

-"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

-"Reader, I married him."

-"Flirting is a woman's trade, one must keep in practice."

-"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."

-"Am I hideous, Jane?

Very, sir: you always were, you know."

-"I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me."