There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.