She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

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.