Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

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.

Fortune and humor govern the world.