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.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

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.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

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 I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

One can never outlive one's vanity.