Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.