Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.
The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.