Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the same, and for exactly the same reason?

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

True joy is only hope put out of fear.