Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

A woman only can understand a woman.

Confidence is its own security.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.