Even women are perfect at the outset.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.