There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.