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

Men are vile inconstant toads.

Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

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

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

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.

Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.