There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot.