Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Great men should not have great faults.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.