Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.