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

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.