We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.