Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.

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.