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 costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

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

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.