'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.

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

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

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.

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