The only security is courage.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

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

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

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

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.