Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

A person can't help their birth.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.