Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.