to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?

It's all been very interesting.

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

In short I will part with anything for you but you.