No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.