The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.