The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.