I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

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.