A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.