"To be more loved than esteemed is a precarious tenure."

"It is a happy thing for women, that there is a kind of fashion in their ideas, as well as in their dress."

"My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable …"

"It is difficult for me to be patient with the folly of mankind."

"Security is the very first characteristic of happiness."