Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.