To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. - Vicesimus Knox

L’hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu.

You must master the vices. You know that if a thing is worth doing it's worth doing well. If, however, a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache.”

That learning belongs not to the female character, and that the female mind is not capable of a degree of improvement equal to that of the other sex, are narrow and unphilosophical prejudices.