The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.