A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.