A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.