“Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.”

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

I’m dancing on the edge of the knife, as I cut out pieces of my heart to feed your beasts.

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Brown daughters are just fragile glass houses always on the verge of shattering.

The knife’s edge that separates failure from success in life. That edge is your attitude, which has the power to help shape your reality.

I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

Live on the edge. I’m only free because I’m not afraid. Everything I was afraid of already happened to me.