“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

“But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.”