The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

The world is the same everywhere.

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.