The Common Foible Of Women Who Have

We Do Not Lack Strength So Much As The Will To Use It; And Very Often Our Imagining That Things Are Impossible Is Nothing But An Excuse Of Our Own Contriving, To Reconcile Ourselves To Our Own Idleness.

It Is A Great Act Of Cleverness To Be Able To Conceal One's Being Clever.

There Are Women Who Never Had An Intrigue; But There Are Scarce Any Who Never Had But One.

We Should Gain More By Letting The World See What We Are Than By Trying To Seem What We Are Not.

What We Take For High-mindedness Is Very Often No Other Than Ambition Well Disguised, That Scorns Means Interests, Only To Pursuegreater.