Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.