Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

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