My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.