We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.