I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

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.

Forgive what you can't excuse.

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.

Men are vile inconstant toads.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

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