It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.