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

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

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

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.