A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.