The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.