We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.