Even women are perfect at the outset.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.