The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.'