Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing more a cunning thing but very few a generous thing.
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone and that I have no one to tell it to.