I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

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.

Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

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

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.