You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

A progeny of learning.