Sensibility is the power of woman.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs