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

We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.