A good woman is a hidden treasure. Who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand of imitations.

The glory of a great man ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it.

Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.

There are a few women whose charm survives their beauty.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts.

If we had no vices ourselves we should take less pleasure in identifying those of others.

Neither the sun, nor death can be looked at steadily.

Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to disguise what we are, we might appear like ourselves without being at the trouble of any disguise at all.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.