I am but too sensible, through your means, that the company of men, wants a certain softness to recommend it, and that of women wants everything else.

How often have I been quietly going to take possession of that tranquility and indolence I had so long found in the country, when one evening of your conversation has spoiled me for a solitaire too! Books have lost their effect upon me, and I was convinced since I saw you, that there is something more powerful than philosophy, and since I heard you, that there is one alive wiser than all the sages.

A plague of female wisdom! it makes a man ten times more uneasy than his own.

What is very strange, Virtue herself, when you have the dressing of her, is too amiable for one's repose.

What a world of good might you have done in your time, if you had allowed half the fine gentlemen who have seen you to have but conversed with you! They would have been strangely caught, while they thought only to fall in love with a fair face, and you had bewitched them with reason and virtue, two beauties that the very fops pretend to have an acquaintance with." "August 20, 1716.
"Madam, "You will find me more troublesome than ever Brutus did his evil genius, I shall meet you in more places than one, and often refreshen your memory before you arrive at your Philippi.