The owning of faults is no hard matter for persons that find a fund within themselves to mend them. (p. 153). - Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

To live in perpetual employment, is to travel rapidly through life. Tranquility lengthens our existence. (p. 136).

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them. (p. 172).

We spoil the dispositions nature has given to women ; we neglect their education, fill their minds with nothing solid, and destine them solely to please, and to please only by their graces or their vices.