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| A clever woman has millions of born foes,—all stupid men. | 1 |
| Accident is veiled necessity. | 2 |
| Age either transfigures or petrified. | 3 |
| An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never. | 4 |
| As soon as fashion is universal, it is out of date. | 5 |
| Be the first to say what is self-evident, and you are immortal. | 6 |
| Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his. | 7 |
| Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. | 8 |
| Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. | 9 |
| Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor. | 10 |
| Genius points the way; talent pursues it. | 11 |
| Grace is the outcome of inward harmony. | 12 |
| He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength. | 13 |
| How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. | 14 |
| How wise must one be to be always kind. | 15 |
| If there be a faith that can remove mountains, it is faith in one’s own power. | 16 |
| In every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude. | 17 |
| In youth we learn; in age we understand. | 18 |
| It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united. | 19 |
| Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name. | 20 |
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| Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please. | 21 |
| Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak. | 22 |
| Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence. | 23 |
| One thought cannot awake without awakening others. | 24 |
| Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. | 25 |
| Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. | 26 |
| Pity is love in undress. | 27 |
| Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed. | 28 |
| The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. | 29 |
| The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humor, curiosity, and self-importance. | 30 |
| The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them. | 31 |
| The wise man is seldom prudent. | 32 |
| There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister. | 33 |
| There is only one proof of ability,—action. | 34 |
| There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar needs feel a certain respect for those who confide in him. | 35 |
| They understand but little who understand only what can be explained. | 36 |
| To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible. | 37 |
| Unattainable wishes are often “pious.” This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled. | 38 |
| We are valued either too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth. | 39 |
| We should always forgive,—the penitent for their sake, the impenitent for our own. | 40 |
| We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for. | 41 |
| What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. | 42 |
| When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. | 43 |
| Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? | 44 |
| Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring. | 45 |
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