Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain.