Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

True happiness springs from moderation.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert