Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

Forgive what you can't excuse.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.