It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

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.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.