The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.

Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.