The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.