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

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

We always like those who admire us.