It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

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

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

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.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.