Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
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.
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.