Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.