All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

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.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.