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

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.