The Desire Of Appearing Clever Often Prevents

He Is Not To Pass For A Man Of Reason Who Stumbles Upon Reason By Chance But He Who Knows It And Can Judge It And Has A True Taste For It.

It Is Pointless For A Woman To Be Young Unless Pretty, Or To Be Pretty Unless Young.

Instead Of Considering That The Worst Way To Persuade Or Please Others Is To Try Thus Strongly To Please Ourselves, And That To Listen Well And To Answer Well Are Some Of The Greatest Charms We Can Have In Conversation.

We Would Frequently Be Ashamed Of Our Good Deeds If People Saw All Of The Motives That Produced Them.

Our Good Qualities Expose Us More To Hatred And Persecution Than All The Ill We Do.