Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.