The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.