What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.