No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.