The conscience is more wise than science.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

All finery is a sign of littleness.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.