The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

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

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.