Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.