Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

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.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

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

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

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