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

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 no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

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