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

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

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

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?

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

It's all been very interesting.