The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.