It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.