There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.