Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.