Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.

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.

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.