The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.