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.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Men are vile inconstant toads.

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

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.