Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.