We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

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.

... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

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

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

One can never outlive one's vanity.