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.

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

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

Civility cost nothing.

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

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

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.