One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.