Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.