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

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

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Life is too short for a long story

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

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.

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.