Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

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