It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

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.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

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

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.