A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

Miss Edgeworth and Mme. de Stael have proved that there is no sex in style; and Mme. la Roche Jacqueline, and the Duchesse d'Angouleme have proved that there is no sex in courage.