Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.
Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.
Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.
You may be more prodigal of time than of money.
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.