The best of women are hypocrites.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

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

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!