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

My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.

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.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.

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

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.