Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

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.

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.