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.

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

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

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.

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

It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.