The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

Life is too short for a long story