Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.