Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.