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

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.