Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Women of the world crave excitement.

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.