We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.