Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.