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

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.