Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.

He who blushes is already guilty.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.