There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.