Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.