Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner? Ought a gentleman to be a loyal son, a true husband, an honest father? Ought his life to be decent, his bills to be paid, his taste to be high and elegant, his aims in life lofty and noble?

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.