Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.

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

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.