Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

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.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.

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.

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.