Make your best thoughts into action.
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.
The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.
Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.
Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.
Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.