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

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth