A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.