Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.