there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.
Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
A woman only can understand a woman.
Curiosity is its own suicide.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.