She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.