Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.
Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.