It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.