A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.

A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.