"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

"It is a maxim that a man who has made his fortune, may do what he pleases."

"The greatest felicity of life is to be employed in a work, to which one is fitted by nature."

"As for yourself, whom I have the honour to know, you are a person of distinction, and would have been an ornament to any court in Europe."

"The virtue of a woman is often a greater torment to her husband than her vice."