We are not indeed obliged always to speak what we think, but we must always think what we speak. (p. 149). - Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

We live with [our defects] as we do with the perfumes that we wear, we do not smell them ; they only incommode others. (p. 195).

Birth bestows less of honour than it demands; and to boast of ancestry is but to praise the merit of others. (p. 139).

The principal merit which should be required in our friends, is virtue : It is that which assures us they are capable of friendship, and worthy of it : expect nothing from your connections, when they have not this foundation. (pp. 54-55).