The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

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

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.