To be rude is as good as being clever.

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.

And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!

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.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.