There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.