The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.