The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

You may be whatever you resolve to be.

I always look upon the capacity to save money as little short of miraculous.

She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.

What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros?

Anyone who's sold herself for somebody else once isn't going to do it again.

If subjects must never resist$$$ it follows that every prince$$$ without any effort$$$ policy$$$ or violence$$$ is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.

No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason and capacity

Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.

What happens in the heart$$$ simply happens.