Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.

The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it, even as an accomplishment and a recreation.

To those duties you have not yet been called, and when you are you will be less eager for celebrity.

You will not seek in imagination for excitement, of which the vicissitudes of this life, and the anxieties from which you must not hope to be exempted, be your state what it may, will bring with them but too much.
"But do not suppose that I disparage the gift which you possess; nor that I would discourage you from exercising it.

I only exhort you so to think of it, and so to use it, as to render it conducive to your own permanent good.