Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

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.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.

He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.