While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.