The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.