Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

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

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.