For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!