No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

How easy love makes fools of us.