A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.