They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.