The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.
We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.
We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.
It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.
No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.