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.

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

The world is the same everywhere.

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

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.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.