We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.