Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Men are nothing until they are excited.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.