Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.