Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.