Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.