But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.

It's all been very interesting.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.