Frances Burney

"Courage is the first requisite in a woman."

"Do you come to the woods expecting to find a sylph or a nymph? You will be disappointed."

"The world has always laughed at its own follies."

"I am not at all in a humour for talking."

"There is nothing that time will not cool, nothing that he will not reconcile."

"To find one's way out of despair by means of some form of creative activity... this is the solution."

"Friendship is a treasure the heart never deprecates."

"How much can be done by industry and perseverance."

"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us."

"Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions."

"Human life is but a succession of conflicts."

"Truth is like a torch, the more it's shook the brighter it shines."

"The greatest evil is not done in our workplaces or public institutions, but in our homes."

"For the misfortunes of others are always a source of entertainment to society."

"Love is a great beautifier."

"All the privileges I claim for my own sex... I claim as strenuously for yours."

"Nothing is so delightful as the hearing or the speaking of truth."

"Music is the language of the angels."

"Every moment of doubt is unnecessary and a denial of our power."

"The pen is a mighty instrument."

"I cannot make speeches. I have merely tried to tell the truth."

"Some people have a way of inspiring in us a wish to play the fool."

"Study is the business of age."

"Piety is not purely a matter of the heart."

"The whole art of living is to know whom to trust."

"In the whole universe there is but one supreme power."

"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth."

"Beauty is the most powerful of all the arts."

"The most perfect love is the love that is prepared to lose everything."

"For the timorous and cautious, life is a long agony."