We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

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.

Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.