If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.