The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.