An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.