Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.