In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

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

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.