One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over.

Youth is a season that has no repose.

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

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.

Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.