Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.