Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.

A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.