Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Women love energy and grand results.

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

Nothing ages like laziness.

It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.