Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.