Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.