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

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.