... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure; I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees.

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

Names govern the world.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.