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

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

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!