Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

As long as we love, we can forgive.