It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.