Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.