It takes good memory to keep up a lie

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.

Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.