There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.