His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

Sensibility is the power of woman.