It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.