It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.