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

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.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.