Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.