Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.