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.

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

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

It's all been very interesting.

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

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.