An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.