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.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

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

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

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

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

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.