Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.