Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

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.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

'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.