Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.