We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.