I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

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

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.

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

We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.