Even women are perfect at the outset.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.