All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.