I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

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.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.