I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.

. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.